Search for dissertations about: "economic revolution"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 50 swedish dissertations containing the words economic revolution.
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1. Seven Years That Shook Economic and Social Thinking : Reflections on the Revolution in Communist Economics 1985-1991
Abstract : The main theme of this study is to analyze the Soviet economic theoretical debate in the period 1985 – 1991. This period of reconstruction gave possibilities of a more free debate. READ MORE
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2. Malthusian Progress
Abstract : Some scholars maintain that pre-industrial England was held in a Malthusian ‘trap’, and that this trap prevented the sustained growth of real wages until as late as 1800. Opponents to this view argue that the structural transformations occurring in preindustrial England – urbanization, labour reallocation between sectors, and human capital investments – are features of development that are incompatible with the idea of Malthusian stagnation. READ MORE
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3. A Silent Revolution : The Swedish Transition towards Heat Pumps, 1970-2015
Abstract : Currently, more than half of all Swedish single-family houses have an installed heat pump and more heat is supplied by heat pumps in Sweden than in any other nation. Despite the enormous impact of heat pumps on the Swedish energy system, the transition towards their use has gone relatively unnoticed. READ MORE
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4. Innovation and transformation in the Swedish manufacturing sector, 1970-2007
Abstract : This doctoral thesis investigates changes in the volume and character of Swedish manufacturing sector innovation output between 1970 and 2007, a time span composed of both extended periods of relative prosperity and decline. More specifically, it examines whether changes in the number of innovations, the character of the innovating firms, and the distribution of innovations across industries are generally associated with any such period. READ MORE
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5. The Bias of the World : Theories of Unequal Exchange in History
Abstract : This is a history of theories and theorists of unequal exchange. Starting with mercantilists and Richard Cantillon's theory based on land values, it briefly covers the early Classical economists and Gerald Fitzhugh. READ MORE